CB Fry

Once you've got the bug of using press briefings tactically in order to get your own way, it's a difficult habit to drop. Isn't it Nicola? And to think of the energy he wasted on that match photographer thing way back when. How things change.

I think it's pretty easy for people forget "I've just signed/great facilities/delighted to be here" rent-a-quotes from players who have just signed. It's not worth remembering. Very sweet that you take it as gospel though.

I don't believe it for a second. He's full of it.

Hope a few Saints fans can get down there to give him a guard of honour while he carries his box of stuff to the car.

#dumborientalsloveit

"and that is one shiny table."

You're saying what now?

"Just looking around the stadium and the training ground, you can see the club is set up for European football. I'm excited by the chairman's plans"

Newsflash: no players signing for Saints this summer will be doing so because they "buy into Cortese's vision".

We've had metric tonnes of that horsesh*t already on here. Being all red is moving with the times. Stripes is trapped in the past. All red football kit is "progress". Not to mention the utter feckwittery of "this is a masterplan to takeover Aisia".

Yes they can. Really rather easily.

If he joins Cardiff or Hull he's nothing more than a money grabbing mercenary parasite scumbag. Everything that's wrong about the modern game. I hope he joins Saints. It will show he believes in Cortese's vision for the club, and that he is passionate about playing with our homegrown young players. And probably means he's seen the New Forest and fallen in love with it.

My main worry is how this Keynan lad is going to cope with the massive cultural shift from moving from a backward third world country to a modern, developed first world economy. It may be pretty disorientating for him for the first few months.

Not a clue. Carlos Kickaballs the lot of 'em. Sign the lot up.

Imagine away. Aspire away. Pretty much no chance of it happening. Unless we are back in the Championship by then, and skint. Which is possible I suppose.

That is, like, immense. Notice they've used loads of red on the badge for that Twitter account because those cute little Oriental sheep only respond to things that are red red red red red red. Oh, it's the black and silver badge. Funny that.

Make sure you mention our eleven cup semi finals. That in no way makes us sound small fry, no-mark and tin-pot. Good morning MLG.

There was tons of stuff in the press anout Jay-Rod. What are you on about? Lovren was quicker but hardly out of the blue.

So just to confirm, now downgraded to simply your opinion, rather than "Cardiff have the same idea as us" and this all being some club masterplan. Nothing the club have done or said has suggested we are making specific or concerted inroads into that market, and the club have never said our kit is part of that. A very, very stark contrast to Cardiff. I would also like to take this opportunity to wish the lads well on their pre season tours of Spain and Austria.

Yes, with white all around it.

The Real Madrid reds have 300million fans in Aisa, apparently.

Yes. It's red and white.

Cardiff have very specific and well explained ideas. Hated, but well explained. I must have missed Cortese's "we're targeting the Aisa market with this kit" explanation. Do pop it up if you can find it. Thanks for proving my point on Chelsea.

......and not forgetting we signed Tadanari Lee and Yoshida from Japan where all football kits must be red red red red red red. The Japan national football team do wear one of those funny shades of red though, I must say.

So you've swallowed the "be red to be big in Aisa" horseplop, then? Right-ho. Meanwhile, in other news, the reds of Chelsea and Manchester City are well placed to win the Premier League and/or the Champions League next season. With not one single fan in the entirity of Aisa. Not one.